These cilantro starts were shot using a macro lens at ground level. A “start” is a young plant that has germinated and is now ready to be transplanted into the ground or pots. When you buy small, young plants at garden nurseries, typically in those flimsy black plastic pots – you are buying “starts”. You can grow your own starts from seed by using a greenhouse or inside your house. I have grown my starts in a small greenhouse, inside in a window with good light, and under grow lights.
I like to grow cilantro for limited use in cooking and also because it produces copious amounts of seed.
Interesting Cilantro Facts
- Cilantro is used often in Mexican cuisine.
- Curiously some people feel that cilantro tastes like soap.
- The dried brown seed of cilantro is the spice known as coriander.
Postcard Series 4
This image is included in Postcard Series 4.